Well, you have a point to some extent. Especially on the numbers to be precise.
However , as for your other post about Britain not needing to have a well equipped military as other world powers. Huh......I fail to see your point. How does that work? So other world powers (say the P5 ) can have a well equipped military but not Britain? How does that even work in some people's brain?
Are we that special to deserve an exception? Lool
Do these people even know that we have interests and overseas territories around the world? Do they know we that our exclusive economic zone is the fourth largest in the world(France is the 1st and U.S second,
@Vergennes ). We need to patrol/maintain a presence in virtually the four corners of the globe. plus you never know when/where a war might erupt threatening your interests.
The exclusive economic zones of the United Kingdom in blue, including the British Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies. The British claim in Antarctica is shown in shaded blue.
France has an even larger one, guess they don't also need a military.